Anti-euro German AfD party aims to end leadership dispute


  • World
  • Sunday, 01 Feb 2015

BREMEN, Germany (Reuters) - The eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party that has been siphoning votes from Angela Merkel's conservatives voted narrowly on Saturday to support a demand by founder Bernd Lucke to stop making itself look foolish and choose a single leader.

Lucke's proposal to change several AfD party rules - including eliminating two of the party's three leaders by the end of 2015 - just barely cleared the two-thirds majority threshold with 1,001 of the 1,473 delegates voting in favour.

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